LaKuzwe RW Enquire

The founder

Sabine

Founder & Creative Director, La Kuzwe — Kigali

La Kuzwe is not an agency that sends a stranger on the day. It is Sabine — who takes the first call, draws the room, cuts the cloth, and is standing at the back when the doors open.

Sabine, founder of La Kuzwe, wearing a blush mushanana.

Two wardrobes

She works in both
halves of the day.

A Rwandan bride rarely wears one thing. There is the mushanana that carries her family’s tradition, and the tailored, modern look for the church and the reception. Knowing how to move a bride between the two — so it reads as one person and not two — is the whole craft.

Sabine in a blush mushanana, the draped traditional garment worn at Rwandan ceremonies.

The mushanana

The draped traditional garment worn at Gusaba and through the traditional ceremony — by the bride, and usually by the women of both families with her.

Sabine in a tailored pinstripe suit.

The modern cut

Made to measure, for the civil ceremony and the reception — and for a bride who wants a second look that is unmistakably her own.

How she works

Every family arrives with something they are afraid of losing — a colour, a custom, a grandmother’s expectation. The work is to find that thing early, and then build the day so it survives contact with four hundred guests.

Begin

Work directly
with Sabine.

Every enquiry reaches her, not a form queue. Tell her the date, the stage you are planning, and what you are most worried about.